DBT Skills, Foundations and Frameworks Series - Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide to E

Autor: Clara Emerson

Editorial: PublishDrive

Año: 23/09/2026

ISBN: 9798900421889

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Páginas: 154 pp.

Idioma: eng

EAN: 9798900421889

Dialectical behavior therapy skills for the moments when your emotions take over. This practical guide teaches the exact techniques for calming panic, riding out destructive urges, and asking for what you need without wrecking your relationships.
The chapters build in a deliberate order, so each skill set rests on the one before it. You start with where DBT came from, including the biosocial theory and the acceptance-and-change idea at its center, then see how full treatment runs with individual therapy, skills group, phone coaching, and a consultation team.
Most of the book covers the four skill modules, taught with plain examples you can try the next time a difficult emotion threatens to take over or you?re overwhelmed and need something concrete to do.
The chapters walk through:
- Wise mind, the what and how mindfulness skills, and loving kindness practice
- Crisis survival tools: STOP, TIPP, pros and cons, Wise Mind ACCEPTS, self-soothing through the five senses, and IMPROVE the Moment, including how cold water on your face can bring a pounding heart down within a few minutes
- Radical acceptance, turning the mind, and choosing willingness over willfulness when the pain isn?t going away
- Check the Facts, opposite action, and a clear model for describing what you feel, so you can tell an emotion that gives you useful information from one that misleads you
- PLEASE skills, coping ahead, building mastery, and a sleep hygiene protocol for lowering your day-to-day emotional vulnerability
- DEAR MAN, GIVE, and FAST for making requests and saying no
- Making friends, ending destructive relationships, the six levels of validation, and self-validation after being dismissed
- Behavior chain analysis and the diary card for tracing a blowup back to the trigger that started it
- Adaptations for teens and families, substance use, binge eating, PTSD, and overcontrol, with an honest look at where clinical trials support the method and where the evidence thins out
The back of the book adds a historical timeline of DBT, worked example answers to every end-of-chapter discussion question and exercise so you can check your own work, a glossary of terms, and recommended readings for going further.
This book works for:
- Adults dealing with anger, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm who want concrete skills instead of general encouragement
- People in a DBT program who want a clear companion to skills group
- Therapists, counselors, social workers, and graduate students who need an organized reference to the full skills curriculum
- Parents and partners supporting someone in treatment
You don?t need a diagnosis to use any of it. The skills work on an ordinary Tuesday as well as in a real crisis, and they can be learned at any age, no matter how many other approaches you have tried.
Practice them on small, low-stakes annoyances, and they will be ready when something big hits. Hard feelings will still show up. You will know what to do when they do.
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